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Comparison of the Localization of Tetrodotoxin Between Wild Pufferfish NAOSITE: Nagasaki University's Academic Output SITE Comparison of the localization of tetrodotoxin between wild pufferfish Title Takifugu rubripes juveniles and hatchery-reared juveniles with tetrodotoxin administration Okita, Kogen; Takatani, Tomohiro; Nakayasu, Junichi; Yamazaki, Hideki; Author(s) Sakiyama, Kazutaka; Ikeda, Koichi; Arakawa, Osamu; Sakakura, Yoshitaka Citation Toxicon, 71, pp.128-133; 2013 Issue Date 2013-09-01 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/33395 © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.; NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Toxicon. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural Right formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Toxicon, 71(2013) This document is downloaded at: 2017-12-22T05:55:32Z http://naosite.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp 1 Comparison of the localization of tetrodotoxin between wild pufferfish 2 Takifugu rubripes juveniles and hatchery-reared juveniles with tetrodotoxin 3 administration 4 5 Kogen Okita1, Tomohiro Takatani1, Junichi Nakayasu2, Hideki Yamazaki3, Kazutaka 6 Sakiyama3, Koichi Ikeda2, Osamu Arakawa1, Yoshitaka Sakakura1* 7 8 1Graduate School of Fisheries Science and Environmental Studies, Nagasaki University, 9 1-14, Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan 10 2Graduate School of Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, 1-14, Bunkyo-machi, 11 Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan 12 3Research Center for Marine Invertebrates, National Research Institute of Fisheries and 13 Environment of Inland Sea, Fisheries Research Agency, Momoshima, Hiroshima 14 722-0061, Japan 15 16 *Corresponding author. Tel/fax:+81-95-819-2823 17 E-mail address: [email protected] (Y. Sakakura) 18 19 Highlights 20 ►Localization of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in various tissues among wild pufferfish juveniles, 21 hatchery-reared juveniles with or without TTX administration was investigated. 22 ►Localization of TTX in hatchery-reared juveniles with TTX administration (skin, liver, 23 olfactory, optic nerve, brain) coincides those in wild juveniles.►TTX accumulation in 24 the central nervous system is observed. 25 1 26 Abstract 27 To reveal the accumulation profile of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in pufferfish Takifugu 28 rubripes juveniles, we compared the localization of TTX in various tissues among wild 29 juveniles and hatchery-reared juveniles with or without TTX administration using 30 immunohistochemical technique with anti-TTX monoclonal antibody. 31 Immuno-positive reaction was observed in hepatic tissue, basal cell of skin and 32 olfactory, olfactory epithelium, optic nerve and brain (optic tectum, cerebellum, medulla 33 oblongate) of wild juveniles (body length: BL, 4.7-9.4 cm). TTX was detected in the 34 same tissues as wild juveniles and epithelial cell layer of intestine of hatchery-reared 35 juveniles (BL, 5.0-5.3 cm) to which TTX was orally administrated. No positive 36 reaction was observed from the tissues of hatchery-reared juveniles without TTX 37 administration. These results suggest that orally administrated TTX to the non-toxic 38 cultured juveniles is accumulated in the same manner of wild juveniles. In addition, 39 our study revealed that pufferfish accumulates TTX in the central nervous system. 40 41 42 Keywords: central nervous system, immunohistochemistry, pufferfish, Takifugu rublipes, 43 tetrodotoxin (TTX). 44 2 45 1. Introduction 46 47 Marine pufferfish of the genus Takifugu contain a potent neurotoxin, tetrodotoxin 48 (TTX, Noguchi et al. 2006a). TTX is thought to be originally produced by marine 49 bacteria, and distributed over many taxa of animals including pufferfish, gobies, 50 blue-ringed octopuses, carnivorous gastropods, starfish, toxic crab, horseshoe crabs, flat 51 worms, and ribbon worms (Miyazawa and Noguchi 2001). Artificially raised grass 52 puffer Takifugu niphobles and tiger puffer Takifugu rubripes becomes non-toxic when 53 fed with non-toxic diets in an environment where the invasion of TTX-bearing 54 organisms was eliminated (Matsui et al. 1982, Saito et al. 1984, Noguchi et al. 2006b), 55 and such non-toxic pufferfish become toxic when fed with TTX-containing diets 56 (Matsui et al. 1981, Honda et al. 2005, Kono et al. 2008). These evidences indicate 57 that TTX in pufferfish is exogenous and is derived via the food chain that starts from 58 TTX-producing bacteria (Noguchi and Arakawa 2008). However, it remains unclear 59 that the transfer, accumulation, and elimination mechanisms of TTX accumulated in the 60 pufferfish body from food organisms. 61 The distribution of TTX in the body of Takifugu spp. is species-specific except for 62 liver and ovary (Noguchi et al. 2006a, Noguchi and Arakawa 2008). In T. niphobles at 63 the spawning season, the amount of TTX in the ovary was high but non-toxic in the 64 testes, whereas toxicity in skin and liver of male was higher than female (Itoi et al. 65 2012). Ikeda et al. (2010) reported that liver toxicity in the females of fine-patterned 66 puffer Takifugu poecilonotus was high during the ordinary period, and ovarian toxicity 67 was high during the maturation period. These evidences suggest that the TTX serves 68 an antipredator function both for adults and for spawned eggs. Generally in wild 3 69 condition, the liver and ovary of T. rubripes adults are strongly toxic, whereas the 70 muscle, skin and testes are non-toxic (Noguchi and Arakawa 2008). However, when 71 TTX was administered intramuscularly to hatchery-reared T. rubripes juveniles, some 72 TTX remain in the liver but most of the toxins are transferred to the skin (Ikeda et al. 73 2009). Predation is a major cause of mortality in T. rubripes juveniles (Shimizu et al. 74 2007, 2008; Nakajima et al. 2008). Shimizu et al. (2007, 2008) conducted release 75 experiments in a salt pond mesocosm and clarified survival of non-toxic hatchery-reared 76 T. rubripes juveniles was significantly lower than that of toxic wild juveniles. Thus, 77 bearing of TTX in the skin of T. rubripes juveniles may be functional as predator 78 defense. In addition, Shimizu et al. (2007, 2008) reported that fear response in the new 79 environment of non-toxic hatchery-reared juveniles is different from that of toxic wild 80 juveniles. These results indicate that TTX may have effects on behavior of the T. 81 rubripes juveniles. 82 Recently the micro-distribution of TTX in the tissues of several puffer species was 83 investigated by immunohistochemical techniques using anti-TTX monoclonal antibody 84 (Tanu et al. 2002; Mahmud et al. 2003a,b; Ikeda et al. 2009; Itoi et al. 2012). 85 Therefore, to reveal the accumulation profile of TTX in T. rubripes juveniles, we 86 compared the localization of TTX not only in the skin and liver but also in brain and 87 sensitive organ (olfactory and eye) which is responsible for behavior among wild 88 juveniles, hatchery-reared juveniles with or without TTX administration using 89 immunohistochemical technique with anti-TTX monoclonal antibody. 90 91 92 2. Materials and methods 4 93 94 2.1. Pufferfish 95 96 Wild juveniles of T. rubripes (body weight, 4.1-24.1 g; body length, 4.7-9.4 cm; 97 n=5) were collected in the seashore sites in Kasaoka city, Okayama, Japan, in August 98 2008 and were transported to Research Center for Marine Invertebrates, National 99 Research Institute of Fisheries and Environment of Inland Sea, Fisheries Research 100 Agency, Momoshima, Hiroshima, Japan. The wild juveniles were fed with the freezed 101 krill Euphausia sp. once a day in an aerated 0.5 kl tank before immunohistochemical 102 experiment. Non-toxic cultured T. rubripes (about two months old; body weight, 103 3.2±0.6 g; body length, 4.5±0.2 cm; n=500) were purchased from Yamaguchi Pref. Sea 104 Farming Public Corporation, Japan and were transported to the same institute as wild 105 fish. The non-toxic cultured juveniles were fed with the commercial diets (Otohime 106 S2 and EP1, Marubeni Nissin Feed Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) in an aerated 5 kl tank 107 before TTX administration. 108 109 2.2. Preparation of TTX-containing diets 110 111 TTX was purified from the ovary of a wild-caught adult T. rubripes (body weight, 112 1.0 kg) according to the method of Ikeda et al. (2009) with a slight modification. In 113 addition, the extract was partially purified with Bio-Gel P-2 column (Bio-Rad 114 Laboratories Inc., Herucles, CA, USA) and the absorbed TTX by the gel was eluted 115 with 0.05 M AcOH. TTX fraction was analyzed by LC/MS analysis on an alliance 116 LC/MS system equipped with a ZSpray MS 2000 detector (Waters, Milford, MA, USA) 5 117 according to Nakashima et al. (2004). TTX was dissolved in distilled water at the 118 toxicity of 7,600 MU/ml. The diet for the control group was commercial diet 119 (Otohime EP1). For the TTX-feeding group, TTX solution was added to the control 120 diet following the method of Honda et al. (2005), adjusting the concentration of TTX 121 with 25 MU/g feed. 122 123 2.3. Toxin administration 124 125 The toxin administration was carried out for 5 days in July 2008. A total of 500 126 non-toxic cultured juveniles were randomly divided into two groups where one group 127 was fed with commercial diets and the other was fed with TTX-containing diets. Fish 128 were kept in 2 kl tank for each group with flow through system (2 kl/hour). 129 Fish were fed 6 times a day with 3-7% body weight on each diet group. 130 Subsequently, 5 fish per group were randomly collected at 5 days after starting toxin 131 administration, and immunohistochemical observation was performed.
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